Elf on programming
2007-04-24 16:10:02.465696+02 by
Dan Lyke
2 comments
From Elf Sternberg, whose characters in Sterlings: The Old Country Returns don't claim to be coming up with it so he's probably just rephrasing succinctly a witticism from elsewhere:
"I heard it that a programmer was a device for turning coffee into source
code. And a compiler is a device for turning source code into bugs. So a
programmer with a compiler is..." She let the obvious consequences of that
chain of logic trail off. "So, which is it?"
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#Comment Re: made: 2007-04-24 23:41:37.818856+02 by:
Dave Goodman
And a cow is just a machine for making grass edible.
#Comment Re: made: 2007-04-24 23:49:13.793642+02 by:
Dan Lyke
s/grass/corn/ and you've got a thesis that Michael Pollan's explored heavily in depth...
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